caliphate

White House: Islamic State Territory in Syria Eliminated

DEB RIECHMANN and LOLITA C. BALDOR / The Associated Press Mar 22, 2019 The fall of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, would mark the end of the group's self-declared caliphate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Vast Undercount of Mosul Dead: 9,000 Civilians Paid in Blood

Susannah George, Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Maggie Michael and Lori Hinnant / The Associated Press Dec 20, 2017 The number killed in the nine-month battle to liberate the Iraqi city from Islamic State marauders has not been acknowledged by the U.S.-led coalition. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Five Prerequisites for War Against Islamic State

Robert Reich / Truthdig Nov 24, 2015 No sane person welcomes war. Yet if we do go to war against Islamic State we must keep a watchful eye on five things. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

ISIS — the New Israel

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 15, 2014 ISIS is employing the same brutal tactics used in the late 1940s to create the Jewish state. As the Zionist guerrillas did, it is swiftly and perhaps permanently redrawing the map of the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Islamic State Has Forced 1,500 Women, Girls and Boys Into Sexual Slavery, According to the U.N.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Sep 17, 2014 The heinous sexual violence Islamic State is inflicting on entire families is a form of warfare with long-lasting effects and a "crime against humanity," former CIA analysts Aki Peritz and Tara Maller argue in Foreign Policy magazine, but for some reason the subject's barely been broached by the West. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their ‘Caliphate’ and Ours

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Sep 3, 2014 Minus a couple of invasions, the steps being considered or already in effect to deal with “the threat of ISIS” are a reasonable summary of the last 13 years of what was once called the Global War on Terror and now has no name at all. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Islam’s Walls of Language

William Pfaff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2012 Mitt Romney's bumbling in Israel nonetheless introduced a subject few other American politicians know anything about, nor do, it seems, the staffs of the NSA, CIA and other American political and military planners. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )